Akihiro Yano
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| Born: December 6, 1968 Hirano-ku, Osaka, Japan | |||||||||||||||
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |||||||||||||||
| NPB debut | |||||||||||||||
| August 3, 1991, for the Chunichi Dragons | |||||||||||||||
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| May 8, 2010, for the Hanshin Tigers | |||||||||||||||
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| Batting average | .274 | ||||||||||||||
| Hits | 1347 | ||||||||||||||
| Home runs | 112 | ||||||||||||||
| RBIs | 570 | ||||||||||||||
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| Last updated on: April 23, 2020 | |||||||||||||||
Akihiro Yano (矢野 燿大, Yano Akihiro, real name: 矢野 輝弘, born December 6, 1968) is a former Japanese baseball player in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He started his career as the Number 2 Draft pick with the Chunichi Dragons in 1991, and played for the Hanshin Tigers from 1998 until his retirement in 2010.
References
[edit]- Nippon Professional Baseball career statistics from JapaneseBaseball.com
- Career statistics from Baseball Reference (Minors)
- Career statistics - NPB.jp (in Japanese)
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- Chunichi Dragons players
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- Olympic baseball players for Japan
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- Goodwill Games medalists in baseball
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